tilde

noun: Punctuation topic

1the mark ( ˜ ) placed over letters in some languages and some vowels in the International Phonetic Alphabet to show how they should be pronounced, as in España, São Paulo and penchant/pɒ̃ʃɒ̃/2(alsoswung dash)the mark ( ˜ ), used in this dictionary in some parts of an entry to represent the word in blue type at the top of the entry